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Now I'm no legal expert, but wouldn't appropriating someone's social media account to post your own political propaganda literally be a violation of that user's 1st amendment rights? Isn't Musk really into freedom of speech?
No. First Amendment applies to action by the government.
Nope. Your first amendment rights can absolutely be violated by a private corporation in a context that isn't directly related to criticizing the government. This person literally had their page appropriated by Musk, which is absolutely not covered on the EULA, to spread political propaganda. This isn't the same thing as right wing people crying about being banned from Facebook for posting nazi crap.
Doubt it's not covered in EULA. Probably has something like
Company reserves the right to cancel your account for any reason, or without reason...
Fine. Cancel it, but don’t appropriate it without clearing everything first.
The posts are the property of X, so legally they can be the biggest douches about it.
Yup. I know. I just wouldn’t want them to co-opt my stuff if I had my name tied to it and then start posting rhetoric. That’s misrepresenting me and I would sue for defamation.
For the record, I do not have a personal X account tied to me. This is all hypothetical.